David Epstein and Daniel Coyle; Erik Hoel quits academia; Renee Diresta on social network flocking; Misha Saul on cultural norms; John O. McGinnis on the youth vote
The easy-to-comment on Annoyed post comes just after this line:
"I don’t have to say who recently can be added to this list."
At my college, one unofficial motto was: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" (Another was: "Work. Study. Get rich")
One reason so many intellectuals are annoyed at capitalism is how much status the rich capitalists so often get.
A reason many workers give less respect to ivory tower types is how safe they seem in their tenure - with risk-free pronouncements from on-high that, when translated into actual gov't policy, result is bad outcomes. No college should be, generally, a "safe space" - tho it should be possible to have small places that are so designated with more stringent behavior norms (and exile from the space for violation).
We need a return to colleges were all can disagree, peacefully with reasons, and listen to the idea or leave - but not to censor. Erik Hoel's decision to leave the intolerant liberal campus should allow him more intellectual freedom.
Renee Derista says "the Trending Topics feature not only surfaces trends, it shapes them". She has good insights about the structure of the trendy twitterverse - but chooses to emphasize QAnon & pizzagate. What about 2 years of gov't & media lies with Russia Hoax? What about pre-election censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop with what looks like incriminating evidence on Joe Biden corruption?
On many big issues, QAnon was more accurate & truthful, sooner than liberal NY Times. And why is pizzagate so often mentioned but not Epstein's missing library of sex videos after The FBI broke open his safe? Oh, it because Dem supporting celebrities were having illegal sex, caught on DVDs, so that evidence has to be handled like HR Clinton's illegal server which also likely contained details of her accepting donation bribes in her Clinton bribery Foundation.
Gov't lies and destruction of evidence remain a far far bigger problem and threat to democracy than the network structure of social media trust and flock behavior, like swallows flying (cool video!).
Unmentioned by McGinnis on the youth vote is how irresponsibility is cool - and being responsible is uncool. As liberal Christian capitalism leads to more wealth, the price & cost of mistakes due to irresponsibility goes down - so there are LOTs more irresponsible behaviors taken, and mistakes made. The current Dem feeling seems to be none should be punished for most of these mistakes.
Misha Saul was fantastic. Harvard, and a bunch of "too-rich for gratitude" students are broken. "One stop shop for all Elite Marker needs." Also the cadence, looking thru time at a project: "Even if you are doing the exact right thing, in those moments success looks exactly the same as failure."
Lots of other insight - all should really read THAT link (which is why I put him last).
"do not allow yourself to be enslaved by a past routine and a dull mind. Press on for freedom once more when you can."
Young people are not challenged on their childish ideas in school. In fact most “educators” share the same childish ideas and grade accordingly. Parents must challenge the ideas throughout childhood, even if the child goes to a private school. Always tell your kids to play progressively stupid education game, they will be penalized if they don’t. The nonsense I see taught is just ridiculous, I have challenged the nonsense on occasion, and it has yet to be defended or explained. Again, one must be careful - the “educators” will retaliate.
It amazes me that such a large segment of the population can not intelligently explain or defend their ideas and yet these same dim wits think they are absolutely right and anyone that disagrees is evil and stupid.
I don't think of Lance Armstrong as failing exactly. Doping (cheating) was part of the 'real' game all of the other top cyclists were playing too. Not getting caught was also part of that game, but Armstrong also wasn't unique in failing at that. The documentary "Icarus" – at its beginning – covers an _amateur_ cyclist (the movies's creator) unable to break into the top echelon of his amateur cycling competitions and then deciding to explore doping options. It's _possible_ that Armstrong's (primary) competitive advantage was a superior doping regime, but it seems more likely to me that he was the best among an entire field that was basically all cheating in the same way.
Only 60% of the 18-29 year olds? That does not seem high. A significant number shift right as they age with very few shifting left. It's been like that as long as I've been an adult (~40 yrs).
"Trying to litigate rumors and fact-check conspiracy theories is a game of whack-a-mole that itself has negative political consequences. It attempts to address bad viral content — the end state — while leaving the network structures and nudges that facilitate its reach in place."
Ah, another flowery, highbrow, "elite", disgusting advocate for censorship.
"When I get together with friends, the conversation often turns to their children’s political views, which are almost always significantly more liberal than theirs. Sometimes, their children’s stances are so far to the left as to baffle them. The daughter of one friend supported prison abolition, but she could not explain to her father how this policy could possibly work in practice. But everyone over 18 has a right to vote, regardless of their ability to explain their political program."
Materialistic, career-centric people who ignore their kids are shocked, shocked, with what they absorb from The Grand Wurlitzer media-edu/indoctrination-intelligence-mind-control machine. Also disgusting.
"The problem to be fixed is the medium, not the messages."
Why can't some kind of excise tax that is progressive wrt "engagement" nudge social media toward a different business model. Maybe that would work internally for platforms to simply "tax"* advertisers for appearing with banable content rather than removing it entirely. This would also permit more nuance between distasteful and vile, misleading and outright lying.
* [Showing my economist's bias for taxes over quantitative controls. :)]
The easy-to-comment on Annoyed post comes just after this line:
"I don’t have to say who recently can be added to this list."
At my college, one unofficial motto was: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" (Another was: "Work. Study. Get rich")
One reason so many intellectuals are annoyed at capitalism is how much status the rich capitalists so often get.
A reason many workers give less respect to ivory tower types is how safe they seem in their tenure - with risk-free pronouncements from on-high that, when translated into actual gov't policy, result is bad outcomes. No college should be, generally, a "safe space" - tho it should be possible to have small places that are so designated with more stringent behavior norms (and exile from the space for violation).
We need a return to colleges were all can disagree, peacefully with reasons, and listen to the idea or leave - but not to censor. Erik Hoel's decision to leave the intolerant liberal campus should allow him more intellectual freedom.
Renee Derista says "the Trending Topics feature not only surfaces trends, it shapes them". She has good insights about the structure of the trendy twitterverse - but chooses to emphasize QAnon & pizzagate. What about 2 years of gov't & media lies with Russia Hoax? What about pre-election censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop with what looks like incriminating evidence on Joe Biden corruption?
On many big issues, QAnon was more accurate & truthful, sooner than liberal NY Times. And why is pizzagate so often mentioned but not Epstein's missing library of sex videos after The FBI broke open his safe? Oh, it because Dem supporting celebrities were having illegal sex, caught on DVDs, so that evidence has to be handled like HR Clinton's illegal server which also likely contained details of her accepting donation bribes in her Clinton bribery Foundation.
Gov't lies and destruction of evidence remain a far far bigger problem and threat to democracy than the network structure of social media trust and flock behavior, like swallows flying (cool video!).
Unmentioned by McGinnis on the youth vote is how irresponsibility is cool - and being responsible is uncool. As liberal Christian capitalism leads to more wealth, the price & cost of mistakes due to irresponsibility goes down - so there are LOTs more irresponsible behaviors taken, and mistakes made. The current Dem feeling seems to be none should be punished for most of these mistakes.
Misha Saul was fantastic. Harvard, and a bunch of "too-rich for gratitude" students are broken. "One stop shop for all Elite Marker needs." Also the cadence, looking thru time at a project: "Even if you are doing the exact right thing, in those moments success looks exactly the same as failure."
Lots of other insight - all should really read THAT link (which is why I put him last).
"do not allow yourself to be enslaved by a past routine and a dull mind. Press on for freedom once more when you can."
Young people are not challenged on their childish ideas in school. In fact most “educators” share the same childish ideas and grade accordingly. Parents must challenge the ideas throughout childhood, even if the child goes to a private school. Always tell your kids to play progressively stupid education game, they will be penalized if they don’t. The nonsense I see taught is just ridiculous, I have challenged the nonsense on occasion, and it has yet to be defended or explained. Again, one must be careful - the “educators” will retaliate.
It amazes me that such a large segment of the population can not intelligently explain or defend their ideas and yet these same dim wits think they are absolutely right and anyone that disagrees is evil and stupid.
I don't think of Lance Armstrong as failing exactly. Doping (cheating) was part of the 'real' game all of the other top cyclists were playing too. Not getting caught was also part of that game, but Armstrong also wasn't unique in failing at that. The documentary "Icarus" – at its beginning – covers an _amateur_ cyclist (the movies's creator) unable to break into the top echelon of his amateur cycling competitions and then deciding to explore doping options. It's _possible_ that Armstrong's (primary) competitive advantage was a superior doping regime, but it seems more likely to me that he was the best among an entire field that was basically all cheating in the same way.
Only 60% of the 18-29 year olds? That does not seem high. A significant number shift right as they age with very few shifting left. It's been like that as long as I've been an adult (~40 yrs).
"Trying to litigate rumors and fact-check conspiracy theories is a game of whack-a-mole that itself has negative political consequences. It attempts to address bad viral content — the end state — while leaving the network structures and nudges that facilitate its reach in place."
Ah, another flowery, highbrow, "elite", disgusting advocate for censorship.
"When I get together with friends, the conversation often turns to their children’s political views, which are almost always significantly more liberal than theirs. Sometimes, their children’s stances are so far to the left as to baffle them. The daughter of one friend supported prison abolition, but she could not explain to her father how this policy could possibly work in practice. But everyone over 18 has a right to vote, regardless of their ability to explain their political program."
Materialistic, career-centric people who ignore their kids are shocked, shocked, with what they absorb from The Grand Wurlitzer media-edu/indoctrination-intelligence-mind-control machine. Also disgusting.
Did you do this? https://ideas.repec.org/fantasy.html
"The problem to be fixed is the medium, not the messages."
Why can't some kind of excise tax that is progressive wrt "engagement" nudge social media toward a different business model. Maybe that would work internally for platforms to simply "tax"* advertisers for appearing with banable content rather than removing it entirely. This would also permit more nuance between distasteful and vile, misleading and outright lying.
* [Showing my economist's bias for taxes over quantitative controls. :)]